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The NCAA has an $11 billion TV deal. Spending $2-$4 million on 14 floors is no big deal. They can easily be stored and used year after year.
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So the NCAA can afford to take a $30,000 to $40,000 loss times 13 floors each year, but it won't do a significant bump in the pay for the tournament officials?
Also which schools get these new floors each year? Is there a process for allocating them, if more than 13 schools wish to buy? Seems what the NCAA is doing could be viewed as subsidizing certain programs, but not others. Is there fairness here? |
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Here's the answer -- it's a little of both. 5-6 floors are sold off and the ones from the first 3 rounds (including the First Four) are stored and reused:
After March Madness fades, NCAA Tournament floors find new life | NJ.com |
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Management: We're taking a loss of nearly a half million dollars on these floors. We can't afford a pay raise for officials.
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Reduce. Recycle. Reuse. Two out of three ain't bad.
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Management: And, BTW, those officials are making $1700/hr
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I heard through a friend who's son plays football with a NCAA executive's son and the father said the 14 floors are stored out west somewhere. Not sure if they only sell the actual final four floor
Interesting video of creation of floor 2012 NCAA Final Four Basketball Court | Video Library | Detroit Free Press |
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The NCAA also builds two floors exactly alike for the Final 4 (the second one is set up in Bracket Town, which operates during Final 4 week in the host city each year).
At the conclusion of the tournament the winning school is given the option of buying one or both of these floors. Most do; some schools install them in practice facilities and some others have cut up the floors and sold pieces of them as mementos. One of the floors from a championship site where DUKE won a title is still in use at the Emily Krzyzewski Center in Durham, NC. Last edited by OldFanDan; Wed Mar 28, 2012 at 08:46pm. Reason: formatting |
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